Sierra Blanca Brewing is celebrating their 20th anniversary this Saturday with a big party at the brewery in Moriarty. From 2 to 9 p.m., the beer garden will be hopping (pun intended) with live music, food trucks, a kids zone, and more. There is a $5 cover, but kids 12 and under get in for…
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Marble brings their A-game to ABQ Beer Week
If there is such a thing as a collective of ABQ Beer Week veterans, it has to be the staff over at Marble Brewery. They have always been one of the most involved and entertaining participants in the 11-day extravaganza. This year will bring more fun and more beer, so to sort out all the…
Seven New Mexico breweries claim seven medals at the World Beer Cup
The World Beer Cup, a biennial global beer competition, announced its winners in 96 categories on Friday evening from the Craft Brewers Conference in Philadelphia. Needless to say, New Mexico breweries had another excellent showing. First up, Nexus built off their silver medal for Honey Chamomile Wheat at the Great American Beer Festival last fall…
Marble prepares for marbleous 8th anniversary multi-day celebration
It seems hard to believe that Marble Brewery is about to turn eight years old. Time flies when you are drinking beer, right? Like any good brewery, Marble will be celebrating that anniversary with all of their faithful customers. In keeping with last year’s seven-day celebration for seven years, this time around they will have…
Marble adds another food option at Westside Taproom
The fans of Marble’s Westside Taproom are a loyal bunch. Any hint of change can sometimes send them into a bit of social media panic, as some of us noticed last weekend. At issue was a rumor that food trucks were no longer going to be parking outside, or at least there would be limitations,…
Marble rolls through one year of transition into a potentially explosive 2016
If anyone out there thinks that 2015 was a massive year for Marble, just wait, because 2016 could be massive. For this next entry in our Look Back/Look Ahead Series for 2015-16 (following La Cumbre, Bosque, Tractor, and Distillery 365), I sat down with Marble owner Ted Rice, head brewer Josh Trujillo, beer ambassador Tony…
Gazing into the future of the New Mexico brewing scene
After a slew of slow news days regarding the local brewing scene, the intrepid Stephanie Guzman of Albuquerque Business First posted a story today about Rio Bravo Brewing applying for a $5 million county industrial revenue bond. A surprising move? Maybe to some, not to others. Rio Bravo has been talking big since before they…
New Mexico breweries endure a tough day at GABF but still earn 4 medals
New Mexico breweries were not able to recapture the medal haul of the past two years at the Great American Beer Festival on Saturday, but there were still a few impressive medals earned. This year saw four breweries bring home four medals. New Mexico breweries had earned eight medals apiece in 2013 and 2014. Bosque…
New Mexico breweries poised to storm GABF once again
In case anyone has been living under a rock of late, the Great American Beer Festival, that annual homage to craft beer, begins Thursday and runs through Saturday in Denver. In addition to the thousands upon thousands of beer served up at the Denver Convention Center, there will be hundreds of satellite events, special tappings,…
Rice serves up all the details on the big Marble expansion that is underway
As many of you probably saw in the Albuquerque Journal last week, Marble has finally broken ground on their long-awaited brewery expansion downtown. The Crew was not able to attend that ceremony, but Marble was kind enough to invite us over for a sit-down with co-owner/brewmaster/mastermind Ted Rice on Wednesday afternoon to go over the…
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